mmc: sdhci: 64-bit DMA actually has 4-byte alignment
The version 3.00 SDHCI spec. was a bit unclear about the required data alignment for 64-bit DMA, whereas the version 4.10 spec. uses different language and indicates that only 4-byte alignment is required rather than the 8-byte alignment currently implemented. That make no difference to SD and EMMC which invariably transfer data in sector-aligned blocks. However with SDIO, it results in using more DMA descriptors than necessary. Theoretically that slows DMA slightly although DMA is not the limiting factor for throughput, so there is no discernable impact on performance. Nevertheless, the driver should follw the spec unless there is good reason not to, so this patch corrects the alignment criterion. There is a more complicated criterion for the DMA descriptor table itself. However the table is allocated by dma_alloc_coherent() which allocates pages (i.e. aligned to a page boundary). For simplicity just check it is 8-byte aligned, but add a comment that some Intel controllers actually require 8-byte alignment even when using 32-bit DMA. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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